89 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 89 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against busy avenues. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 89 Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (54) and tree cover (99). Street crime (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 89 Avenue, with 312 reports. The whole 311 file on 89 Avenue holds 1,380 reports, and illegal parking is 23% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 294 reports, and residential noise with 230. The file runs across 86 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 89 Avenue carries roughly 59 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 92 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 111 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (81 violations) and doors (68). City housing records put 2,333 homes in 695 residential buildings on 89 Avenue, 62 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 16 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.4 homes each.
NYPD records 101 people injured in crashes on 89 Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 89 Avenue ranks 49 on cleanliness and 23 on infrastructure. 89 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on infrastructure. Quietness ranks 38 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 34. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 68 and transit at 49. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 89 Avenue, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 54.
34% of the 2,333 homes recorded on 89 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 766 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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89 Avenue runs through Jamaica, Richmond Hill and Queens Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).